I've bumped into at least three people in town who all insist 'Winter's Bone' is about them.

I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories.

I didn't really expect to be coming to the Oscars.

He unscrewed the lid, set it on the dash, snorted from the bottle twice, banged the steering wheel, and said, 'You got to be ready to die every day - then you got a chance.'

The heart's in it then, spinning dreams, and torment is on the way. The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.

Ree, brunette and sixteen, with milk skin and abrupt green eyes, stood bare-armed in a fluttering yellowed dress, face to the wind, her cheeks reddening as if smacked and smacked again.

The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished.